tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17154648.post4185771794906577722..comments2013-06-09T16:16:10.854-07:00Comments on His Barking Dog: Better Learn Some History Before It's Too Late - The Lessons of the Past for Current PracticeDennis E. McFaddenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07580173031351978626noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17154648.post-83577990098160383702008-05-13T09:24:00.000-07:002008-05-13T09:24:00.000-07:00Nice couple of posts Dennis.Nice couple of posts Dennis.Dave Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04272431500457083818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17154648.post-37688761363559482062008-05-06T08:46:00.000-07:002008-05-06T08:46:00.000-07:00I appreciate your reference to the confessional an...I appreciate your reference to the confessional anchor (e.g., 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith). But may I quote a slightly altered Barthian muse. "From the Protestant side, there is no compensating basic principle, and no teaching office of the Church to safeguard its authority and enforce its observance, and thus to prevent the headlong fall into all kinds of popular Pelagianism."<BR/><BR/>Specifically, with reference to religious experience (Schliermacher being a modern harbinger) or what might be seen as the ongoing pollution of Reformed Theology (as old as the Middle Ages). “It has happened more than once in the history of Protestantism that an element which had a scholastic form in the Middle Ages has won a place in Protestant doctrine. And more than once this element which seems so alien in its original form has had to be eliminated for the survival or revival of the Reformation Church.” - Barth, K., Bromiley, G. W., & Torrance, T. F. (2004). Church dogmatics, Volume II The doctrine of God, Part 1. (pp.576ff)revdrronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05003474866079969825noreply@blogger.com